George Clooney, Cristiano Ronaldo called to Berlusconi trial

Ruby claims to have partied with both

(ANSA) - Milan, November 23 - Hollywood star George Clooney
and Brazilian footballer Cristiano Ronaldo are among over 200
witnesses that judges will hear in a case surrounding
allegations that former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi paid
for sex with a minor, the court said Wednesday.
"They are cited in testimony from an important plaintiff's
witness," said Berlusconi's defense counselor Niccolo' Ghedini,
claiming that their time on the witness stand would prove those
allegations false.

Karima El Mahroug, a Moroccan runaway and belly dancer also
known as Ruby who allegedly took money for sex from the
ex-premier, has verbally testified to seeing Clooney at a party
in Berlusconi's Sardinian villa.
She has also testified to spending a night in a hotel with
Ronaldo.
On Tuesday, the ex-premier blasted Milan prosecutors for
adding 32 young women who attended his alleged sex parties to
the list of civil plaintiffs.

''The only thing they did wrong was accept an invitation to
dinner from the premier," he said.
In three ongoing trials and many previous cases,
Berlusconi has always denied wrongdoing, claiming he is the
victim of a minority group of allegedly left-wing prosecutors
and judges who he says are persecuting him for political
reasons.

In more than a dozen cases, the ex-premier has never
received a definitive conviction, sometimes because of law
changes passed by his governments, while some other charges were
timed out by the statute of limitations.